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Metals UK wins
Queen’s award
METALS UK, an international specialist
metal service centre based in Blackburn,
UK have been honoured with the Queen’s
Award for Enterprise 2009, for outstanding
achievement in international trade.
The Queen’s award for enterprise is the
highest honour that can be bestowed upon
a British company and is the UK’s top
award for business performance.
Over the past three years Metals
UK’s export earnings have increased by
a dramatic 412%, as the company has
strengthened its position in international
markets, currently supplying over 40
SUPERIOR Technologies Europe Ltd has
signed an exclusive distribution agreement
with Mahindra Hinoday Ind Ltd to distribute
their new HR4B ferrite cores for HF
welding.
HR4B material has been specially
developed to exceed the performance of
long-established ferrite cores available in
the market today. The careful selection of
high quality raw materials, together with
precise manufacturing processes, ensures
that HR4B ferrites give unparalleled
performance in the tube welding
application.
Only the highest specification sintering
furnaces and analytical inspection
equipment is utilised to maintain quality
and monitor performance throughout
the ferrite manufacturing process.
Careful tooling design ensures accurate
mechanical dimensions to achieve high
efficiency and low losses, save welding
energy and concentrate HF power in the
countries in Europe, the Americas,
the middle and Far East, India and
Australia.
“We are delighted to receive our first
Queen’s Award,” said Robert Whitehouse,
Metals UK general manager, “Four years
ago our business was purely domestic,
while today business from international
clients has risen to 50%, the markets we
compete in are very aggressive and it is
difficult to truly differentiate our offering
from that of our competitors.
“We take pride in our vigilance
in determining the end use and end
destination of all our metal we export.
Winning this award in the current
economic climate is a testament to the
hard work and dedication of our team and
makes me extremely proud to be part of
the business.”
weld vee, thereby ensuring a high integrity
weld zone.
Mahindra Hinoday offers the
widest range of sizes from any ferrite
manufacturer and also provides precision
ferrites for applications where a specific
Metals UK supplies a wide range of
duplex, super duplex, nickel alloys and
stainless steel to the offshore, oil and
gas, chemical, nuclear and aerospace
industries. The company also offers
full cutting and added value processing
capabilities in house, including laser,
water-jet, plasma and hi-definition plasma.
This achievement follows a winning
year for Metals UK. After securing new
markets in Eastern Europe, Greece,
Slovakia and Poland they were presented
with the ‘Increased Export Sales’ award
from the Chamber of Commerce in
December 2008.
Metals UK
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size is required to fit inside an impedor
assembly. These precision ferrites further
increase efficiency in difficult welding
applications.
Superior Technologies will exclusively
distribute HR4B cores in Europe (including
Turkey) and also the Russia continent.
Superior Technologies Europe Ltd – UK
Fax: +44 13444 26626
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Superior Technologies Europe
announces ferrite distribution deal
Six-strand caster is modernised
 HR4B ferrite
SN LONGOS Seixal (Megasa Group),
Portugal’s largest manufacturer of long steel
products, has placed an order with SMS
Concast, Switzerland, a company of the
SMS group, Germany, to modernise its six-
strand continuous caster.
SMS Concast will be carrying out extensive
revamping work on the six-strand caster, which
has a radius of 7m, to bring it up to date with
the latest technology. This technology includes
new hydraulic oscillators, electromagnetic
mould stirrers, strand guide systems, primary
and secondary cooling systems, torch cutters
and an advanced Level 2 automation system.
Cast sections of 120 x 120mm and 130
x 130mm are currently being produced.
After the revamp, the machine will be able
to cast two new sections of 140 x 140mm
and 160 x 160mm respectively. This
revamp will enable the product range of
the caster to be greatly enhanced in terms
of quality. It will be possible to produce
high carbon steels for springs and for pre-
stressed concrete rebars as well as for
cold-heading grades.
SMS Group – Germany
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